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Thousand years Quote by Amos Oz

“Often the psyche is the worst enemy of the body: it doesn’t let the body live, it doesn’t let it enjoy itself when it wants to or get the rest it is begging for. If only we could extract it the way we extract the tonsils or the appendix, we would all live healthy and contended lives till we were a…” quote by Amos Oz — Download Open image

““Often the psyche is the worst enemy of the body: it doesn’t let the body live, it doesn’t let it enjoy itself when it wants to or get the rest it is begging for. If only we could extract it the way we extract the tonsils or the appendix, we would all live healthy and contended lives till we were a thousand years old.””

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